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Mediattivo Europe – network for media education within youth workArchive for October, 2008
Radiomxt
Radiomxt (http://www.radiomxt.com/) is a web radio created and managed by the young people of the project Spazio Giovani Martesana. It is being realized with the passion to make and to listen to music and the will to talk to the world, to give the news and make transmissions, to listen to the others and to meet new people. Thus, made with the vital energy and the passion of the ones that is 20 or less, certainly with the support of the operators of the Spazio Giovani Martesana.
Spazio Giovani Martesana is a network of operators/ practitioners, projects, services for the youth among the communities of the eastern province of Milano.
Contact information
| Contact address: Via Bertarini 39 | ||
| Post code: 20061 | Town: Milan | Country: Italy |
| Telephone: +39 0292151900 | Fax number: +39 0292151900 | |
| Website: www.radiomxt.com | E-mail: redazione@radiomxt.com | |
Let’s build our umbrella network
Person in charge: Steve Egan - CSV (Community Service Volunteers)
Highlights of the discussion:
Why a media network? Non simply a network, but an organisation of organisations
To have a dedicated staff to:
- access call for proposals and develop applications for EU fundings
- organize trainings, events, seminars, media camps, common projects
- promote campaigns at a European level
- promote non-formal learning/ intercultural learning for young people through new media
- use media to empower young people to take action
Structure:
- a board
- a secretariat (rotating annually/bi-annually among members)
- member assembly
- a formal statute (definition of participation rules)
Available Grants:
1) Youth In Action – Action 4.3.X Networking Activity as a follow-up of this Partnership Building Activity
2) European Youth Foundation – Council of Europe – Cathegory C (Administrative costs for already established European NGOs) – Cathegory A, B
3) European Cultural Foundation
4) Europe for Citizens Programme
5) LLP Programme – Grundtvig (to be used for job shadowing and training of personnel and promote deep knowledge of how different participant organizations actually work)
The network could be open to all our organizations, but should not be a totally open network and be rather an organization with rules and functioning.
Models of already existing networks and umbrella organizations have been mentioned by Steve, Natasha, Paolo.
Outcome:
The first step for the creation of an umbrella network is to apply for the Youth In Action – Action 4.3.X Networking Activity for the deadline of 1st February or next (1st april – 1st june – 1st september …)
This grant would fund organisational costs bound to the establishment of the network, that is 50% of the overall budget (max. € 40.000) for a max. EU funding of € 20.000.
Conclusions:
We should now define roles and responsibilities for:
- search and share already existing models of umbrella organisations (structure, statute, rules)
- identify and better explore the mentioned and further funding opportunities
- prepare a proposal shared by all partners interested in the umbrella organisation
- write the application for the Youth In Action – Action 4.3.X Networking Activity (or/and other)
Participants:
Steve (En) – Martin (Dk) – Jens (Dk) – Davide (Italy) – Paolo (Italy) – Camilla (Italy) – Nataljia (Latvia) – Malte (De) – Natasha (Italy and Macedonia)
Research project on media and youth
Person in charge: Alessandra Carenzio (Cremit)
Highlights of the discussion:
Research project on media and youth concerning 2 questions, on content and methodology:
- Content: Youth participation
- Method: How to get evidences and measure the impact of informal education experiences (volunteering, working with media in an informal setting)
The discussion focused on informal education and youth: need to collect evidence on positive benefits and effects, not only to say that it’s an experience that changes life. Volunteering is like informal learning, the idea is to make a research on the impact of informal learning experiences (media labs etc). on youth and adolescents, which are the benefits of a media experience or of working with media in an informal education method.
Why do I have to give you money to do it and work with media or to organize a camp for youth?
Criteria:
Target: 16 to 25
What do we want to do is:
- To set criteria for mapping European experiences
- To make a map of experiences in informal education field
- To select at least an experience for each country to make an in depth analysis
- To present our best practices and results in different media platform: books, articles, seminars and website to share expertise and models
- To make exchange of methods and to involve people in our research (control methods)
- To get evidences on the effective change…difficult because if you start a project at the end you are different but why? That’s the point
Methods:
- Questionnaire for young people, to understand their interest, opinions, why they decided to make a sort of experience
- Video making (1): ask youth to make a documentary or a video on the experience and then present it in a video competition. Then locally all the people involved gather for this festival and they what all the videos, with a commission and after this session every research group organizes some focus group talking about the experience. The product should be on the same topic.
- Focus group (locally or mixed)
Video making (2): All groups make a new video after the research (double check: how they represent the topic after the project…example identity, socialization, integration, relationship, religion, education, job, money, choices, European citizenship, democracy, environment and ecology what does it mean to be European today)
Outcome:
Video competition (local or European, according to money and people involved)
Conclusions:
Which are the benefits of working with youth, taking care of their growth? Why should I finance a group working with youth with media, informal learning methods and active methods? It’s very difficult to measure and evaluate the impact of those paths as the factors involved are many: personal believes, cultural aspects, people you get to know, personal facts and not only things connected to methods and setting of education. We would like to set criteria and reflect on this topic, trying to present and point out best practices in Europe.
Promoters
CSV (Community Service Volunteers), Cremit, Grupo Comunicar, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, University of Silesia…and other organizations working with adolescents and youth (no profit organization, local associations)
Participants:
Alessandra, Magda (IT), Francesca, Elena, Dalma, Steve, Tomasz, Danuta, Helena (ES)
Radio Network
Person in charge: Fabio Rech (Radio Martesana)
Highlights of the discussion:
Starting from what is already existing, the idea was the creation of a sort of “european hour” every month in every web radio timetable.
Every radio will collect programmes, create a unique file and send it to the other radios of the network
The structure can be flexible and will depend on the number of countries that will join the network
The first thing to do is to collect partners define the technical referents in every organisation, who will deal with the interaction of different systems
Future possibilities are to be drawn after checking the first results
(a question: are language differences a problem or a resource?
Outcome:
In order to work towards the “European hour” joint radio programme, we can start by exchanging very short programmes (25 min long) from each country to be included in a single programme by a different radio every time.
Participants:
Steve, Francesca, Alessandra, Maddalena, Magdalene, Jan, Diliana
A multimedia camp
Person in charge: Malte Koppe (Youth4Media)
Highlights of the discussion:
After a short introduction to the best practices of Youth 4 Media we discussed once again some important aspects to be balanced while planning:
- quality of the media outcome and maximum participation of the youngsters
- balance of non-experienced (non-English speakers) and skilled (English speaking) participants
- balance of “first time participants” and “project hoppers”
We couldn’t agree on a common topic yet. It is up to be discussed if we can focus on a more political (EU, education …) or social (drug prevention, youth subcultures e.g.) issue.
Finally, we agreed that our common project draft should include the profiles of all our participating organizations (present here in Milano).
This means: * video production
* radio production
* designing of a web page / journalism
* photo (documentation)
* (creating an online newspaper)
Those could be the topics of the workshops during the Camp, anyway, it has to be guaranteed, that workshop leaders have the chance to learn in / from the other groups.
Outcome:
The project could be realized next summer. Just before finishing, we thought of the production school in Denmark to be the ideal place to host the camp.
Conclusions:
Including all types of media AND youth with less opportunities as well as educated youngsters will be a hard task. All details have to be set up yet.
Participants:
Fabio, Helena, Jan, Magda, Davide, Zsòfi, Katja, Malte
Job Shadowing & Trainings/Media Camps with multipliers for media work with children
Person in charge: Marina Baenke (Bennohaus)
Highlights of the discussion:
Job Shadowing
goals: to get know organisations, structures and ways, not passive, but active – learning by working with/doing/learning just in time
different duration and frames depends on programmes
possible programme: youth for action/ action 4
Trainings of multipliers
possible age of multipliers: 20-30
possible age of target groups: 8-18 (but also other groups adults, retired people ect.)
methodology: qualification-module, daily workshops, practical lessons
contents: technical and journalistic skill, padagogic and didactic skills
possible duration: 5 days – 14 days
goals: to enable young people to plan, organise and realise media pedagogic projects with interested groups (children, youngsters, adults ect.) and to produce with them tv broadcasts, films, spots, movies, clips, tv documentations, reports; to make the target groups able to deal creatively and critically with different topics (political, social, cultural, topics of the daily life) through media.
Outcome:
Job shadowing:
there are many different possibilities also regarding to get financial supporting of the European programmes, thats why
- step: to show initiative: it can be the person, who would like to do j.sh. Or the organisation, that would like to invite the person. Both sides must be advantages of it.
- To decide, how long can it last, how many persons can be involved, is j.sh. connected with some concrete events or projects,
- to fix the goals of j. Sh.
- To look for suitable programmes
- to write the application
Multipliers Trainings:
for such kind of project we need the place, technical equipment, media-trainer and participants, which can but must not have experience in this field.
The Bennohaus have experience in organisation and realising of such qualification in Germany and it offers technical equipment, media-trainers and the concept. the concept is so flexible, that the contents of the qualification can be done suitable to interests and needs of the participations, with different topics and special fields. This kind of project is creative and has many sides, that it is possible to apply it even as exchange.
Conclusions:
The main problem and the most less experience and the grates fear is the financial side, where can we get money also all questions, that are connected with it: who is responsible for the application, all have their daily life, duties and work. Decision: check situation, possible time -, personal- and technical resources in own organizations and to fix responsible persons, that will initiate the cooparation.
Participants:
Katja, Camilla, Sintija, Zsofia, Malte, Diliana, Jas, Magda
E-learning platform
Person in charge: Magda Pischetola (Cremit)
Highlights of the discussion:
The three universities – Universita’ Cattolica di Milano (Italy), University of Silesia (Poland), Universidad de Huelva (Spain) – recognize that have similar platforms, describe participants of them and purposes of the e-learning. The project could be extended to the research center IUFFP of the University of Lugano.
Outcome:
We want to prepare a common platform course, using Moodle as the best free tool online that we all already know and work with. Course will be connected with Media Education and will be putting together the different points of view on this topic (e.g. use of the media in education, critical analysis of the media context for young people, inclusive methods of using media education).
Post-graduate course (teachers and students interested in this topic).
Conclusions:
It is necessary to find a good coordination of the contents and of the whole organization.
We have to think of the funds to finance it.
The papers of the students could be presented in the different countries involved, to have a final exchange of ideas on Media Education.
Participants:
Magda, Tomek, Helena, Danuta
Creative Commons (free software and linux)
Person in charge: Nicola Mogno alias “Nik” (Grado 16)
Highlights of the discussion:
we can work with software without spending money, linux and free software provide different instruments to work on graphics (the gimp – photoshop like, inkscape – illustrator like) on video (kino, cinelerra, kdenlive) mailing (thunderbird) web surfing (firefox, opera) audio (nik will put some example on the blog).
To facilitate the partners to work with free software we will build a specific topic on mediattivo europe blog “be cool, free tool”. there are also different web pages to find information about it: happy hippo, hackers paradise, labomedia web site, tucows, artistx.
free software and linux could be an instrument to build media centers in poor countrys (legal waqy to do it, without crackware)
The linux community is also a good instrument of work, they usually help people to learn how to use it and where to find it.
In our daily work we can try to teach the right to free acces to knowledge (free software is just an example, creative commons could be used for music, video, graphicxs and so on)
Linux to fight digital divide of disabled people, it provides instruments for example for blind people. try “bright ubuntu”
Outcome:
- organize creative commons media camp (or trainings inside a classic media camp, or “tool” camp to research and share competences and specific free instruments)
- try to build linux machine to work on media and to disabled people acces
- start a specific item on the mediattivo europe blog about free tools and creative commons
Conclusions:
Linux is not only for geeks, we have to try it and put it in our project. just for the right to be free and to have free acces to knowledge
Participants:
nik, cami, malte, jan, magdalena, martin
Common media-communication production
Person in charge: Davide Branca (Grado 16)
Highlights of the discussion:
Analysis of media and communication products realized by participants at the seminar with youngster:
l video, (fiction, commercial, social advertisement campaign, news)
l flier, stickers, posters
Outcome:
Different strategies to work starting on a specific topic or issue (to choose)
“Mobile phone tool”:
Using mobile phones youngsters of all countries joined can produce different short output like video, music, pictures produced on one-different issues or topic to choose, that will be collected on a web site where can be showed and voted..an international event will be realized to present the winner and the participant.
“MultiMedia on topic”
a ) Youngsters from different countries, will work together (during an exchange, or media camp) to produce one or more media product (on an specific issue, or open topic )
b) Youngsters from different countries, will work on the same topic or issue, to produce one or more media product (on an specific issue, or open topic ) using different media tools, the results will be showed on a web site or during a media camp (for exchange the different experiences)
“Multibrain multimedia production”
Create a multimedia product composed by different workshop or action in different countries
example. One country produce music, one country produce video on it.
(the activities could be done in a media camp, or in each country in different phases)
“European Movie Production”
Production of a movie, by Eu media-program with different country.
Conclusions:
some of the proposal can be mixed in one proposal,
for the mobile strategy possible to find money sponsorship,
Participants:
Natalia, Magda, Helena (de), Martn, Jens, Elena, Paolo
CREMIT
CREMIT - Research Centre on Media, Information and Technology Education – was born in November 2006 after the invitation offered by the Regional School Office (in Lombardia) to become a reference for the integration of media and technologies at school.
The main purpose of the Centre is to promote scientific research, to develop and study models, methodologies and tools in the field of Media Education and Technology Literacy, especially within the school system in Lombardia, creating a new growing occasion open to young researchers.
The main activities developed by Cremit can be summed up in five nodes:
- School Support concerning research, training and educational actions in the media field.
The collaboration built with schools includes:
o stage activities and workshops for high school students (last two school years),
o action-research at school,
o teacher training on media use and on the most actual media aspects.
- Research Activities in the field of Media Education and Information Literacy (educational research on media and new technologies) through European projects and international collaborations.
- Development and analysis of products and didactical tools (kits, guidelines etc.).
- Implementation of educational projects in the field of Media Education in school and extra-school contexts, through projects and initiatives referred to the OMERO Programme (Online Media Education Resources for Organizations – http://omero.unicatt.it) aimed to promote Media Education in action. The working idea refers to the possibility to share resources, experiences and studies developed in this field, creating an exchange and dialogue environment focused on the relationship between media, communication and education.
- Seminars, meetings and conferences dedicated to media and technology education.
Contact information
| Contact address: c/o Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Largo Gemelli, 1 |
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| Post code: 20123 | Town: Milano | Country: Italy |
| Telephone: +39 02 72343038 | Fax number: +39 02 72343040 | |
| Website: http://cremit.unicatt.it/ | E-mail: cremit@unicatt.it | |
